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"gnarled roots exposed on mud-moss banks picking through pottery shards

bird songs ring river

river sky fills

moon swims electric

through (t)rains weft-warp current"

Two 15-minute field recordings placed side by side, the first taken on the banks of the River Ching, Epping Forest, a tributary of the River Lea, along which the second recording was made during a storm over Hackney Marshes.

Various sonic techniques were then used to tune into these recordings, obfuscating and teasing out sound patterns, tracing echoes, creating confluences. Additional stump thumping and railing rhythms by Helen Frosi.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

In this episode, Rob plays some of his favorite live bands of 2023! All your favorites are here! ELECTRIC CHAIR, BIB, SPY, HEZ, BLAZING EYE and so much more! Prepare for a radio show circle pit!

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

In this episode, a selection of tracks that evoke double-gravity drunkenness, stomach electricity and other such states of human experience, narrated from the farmlands of Throop in Dorset.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

This episode features performances from our live score series, re-imagining the visual music of 1920s Dada, where abstract painters explored the new medium of cinema through rhythm, geometry and colour. Interviews and new music from Bell Lungs, Merlin Nova and Pascal Coleman, and Lola de la Mata.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This episode of Third Space was created by Ekin Fil (Istanbul) and Yuting Wu (Beijing).

The first half of the show captures the sounds and music of a daytime in and around Istanbul. Including the areas Kadıköy, Acıbadem, Yenikapı, Eminönü, Sirkeci, Kabataş and Beyoğlu, as well as Darıca where Fil’s family lives on the border of the city.

In the second half of Third Space, Yuting Wu takes us around Beijing from the perspective of an outsider in the city. The first part of the mix emphasises the typical impressions of Beijing: the public transportation, the crowds, the opera, along with a street musician playing saxophone in the park. Beneath these surface impressions, Wu explores the disappointment that accompanies living in such a city as an outsider where dreams and ambitions often go unfulfilled.

Artwork is by Max Howarth.

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

Short Manual is a sound collage program & conceptual mix show with some original production included.

In this episode, a mix of experimental music from Athens mixed with field recordings from train rides and other various sources.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

For this third episode of his collected recordings, Davide presents five works:

'Canta Che Non Passa' (2018)

This work documents part of the repertoire of the informal choir “Canta Che Non Passa”. The choir is a spontaneous group of middle age/old people that constituted a part of the NO TAV movement in Valsusa, northern Italy. The choir’s repertoire consists mainly of protest songs adapted from preexisting musical sources, with lyrics that have been created from scratch.

Davide recorded the choir during one of their rehearsals. Rather than position the microphone at a certain distance from the group to capture the multiplicity of voices, Davide chose to focus on individual voices of those members that sat beside him. This strategy was designed to stress the fallible and imperfect nature of the choir and emphasis the singular/plural dimension of collective singing and the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of non-professional voices.

'Forget The Theater! Go To The Stadium' (2015)

This work documents all the times the italian word “dai” (in english “c’mon”) was used by the leaders of the ultras group BRESCIA 1911 during Brescia vs. Catania, 2015. The word “dai” is commonly used as an exhortation to urge the group to participate in the chanting.
The work reflects on the participatory dimension of football culture and the parallels between the shared feelings of identification, involvement and complicity that characterized the origins of western theater.

'Magnifying My Sphere Of Power' (2013)

In this work, Davide sings and plays drums along with a selection of his favourite hardcore punk songs. The project amplifies the power of music as an emotional inciter, an agitator, a physical energy and a self-presence. With this work Davide wants to emphasize the role of the listener as a responsive agent, who plays a central role in the musical process, and more generally reflect on what listening to music means in terms of reconstruction of meaning (appropriation) and activation of personal agency (participation).

'Single Strokes' (2015)

In this work Davide plays the snare-drum with a pair of microphones. The recordings explore the physical properties of the microphone and present a more intuitive and analog way of approaching audio technology. By giving a body to the microphone the work reflects on the physical affection of material culture and how this sensual attraction subverts the conventional modes of consuming technology.
Single Strokes is part of a series of actions where Davide investigates the practical materiality of the microphone and violates the basic rules and principles of audio technology.

'My Loss Will Be Your Gain' (2016)

The material for this work comes from a tape cassette found by Davide in a derelict house. It consists of a series of recording-tests performed by the woman who used to live in the house. The title of the piece – your loss will be my gain – refers to the accidental discovery of the tape after years of abandonment and neglect.

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Natsume Soseki’s poem “My eyes lift to see / A sky that is entirely / magnolia blooms”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This contribution comes from Usmaradio.

A collaborative network radio performance conceived by Roberto Paci Dalò and performed at Tactus Radio Festival, Republic of San Marino and worldwide, December 2023. Broadcast on Usmaradio together with a global network of radio stations.

Live performers: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, L’Impero della Luce, NicoNote, Roberto Paci Dalò, Tobia Bandini, Vittoria Assembri, Anna Friz, alien productions (Andrea Sodomka and Robert Math), Bauhaus Radio Ensemble (Tilman Böhnke, Fritzi Buhtz, Adrian Ciesielski, Lefteris Krysalis, Finn Röhmer-Litzmann, João Afonso Soares Leiria Parreira Ticão, Amir Shokati, Karlotta Sperling).

The challenge was to work on radical improvisation without any conduction and prior rules, giving maximum freedom to the participants. Most of the artists – performing from different locations – didn’t know each other and actually never talked to each other before the performance and were performing together on-site in the Republic of San Marino and remotely from the USA, Germany, and Austria.

The result was surprising. Subtle sound textures with amazing moments of silence despite the massive use of live electronics. The performance somehow proved that the planned lack of conduction can be balanced by the level of attention and involvement from the performers. It was a mesmerizing immersion in an acoustical world where electronics graciously merged with acoustical instruments and voices. A nocturnal winterreise across galaxies.

CONTINUUM aimed to bring together both independent and broadcasting corporations in order to act in our present and investigate the possibilities of today’s technologies. A suivre…

General coordination by Alessandro Renzi. Mixed by Lorenzo Ricci. Mastered by Alessandro Renzi.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

In this episode, Dronica meets Jude Montague and Matt Armstrong.

Matt Armstrong & Jude Montague present influences and work that has stimulated their imagination in creating their avant-Hammond albums created DIY in their home studios in (formerly) Mottingham and Hastings which feature many rescued keyboards and machines of twentieth century music. Their next album ‘Modern Classics’ is out this autumn on Dimple Discs.

Bio: Matt Armstrong is the bass player in the acclaimed Kenny Process Team, the ambitious and playful guitar tune combo from East London described as ‘godlike’ in the NME, and plays professionally with British avant-folk genius Bill Fay.

Jude Montague is a poet and musician and has been creating content for Resonance FM since 2014 through her show which brings together news and arts, looking at histories of sounds and international stories, ‘The News Agents’. She learned to sing saluang music in Sumatra Barat and has a particular interest in singing Latvian folk songs and Baltic mythology. She has performed at Dronica Festivals with Ilia Rogatchevski and Lisa Ramirez McKendrick.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this extract from the day, a live solo performance by Chihiro Ono

Born in Chiba, Japan, Chihiro Ono is a London-based Japanese sound artist and violinist specialising in chamber music, experimental music and sound art.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Featuring special guest Mary Posa.

Autotune voices, cumbia rythms, plunderphonics minds, contemporary grunges, unrestrained accelerationists, wonderful and clever butterflies,… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

This new and extraordinary documentary ranges across continents – from the sound-induced fears of early colonists in Northeastern America and the apocalyptic premonitions of the indigenous Wampanoag to Greek tongue twisters, Medieval Moorish poetry, Socrates's dread of dehydration in Plato's Phaedrus, the hurdy-gurdy, Geronimo's hatred of telegraphy.

And then on to contemporary and historical entomology, the body language of Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone's Spanish Westerns, the botanist Donald C. Peattie's terror of the inescapable buzz of mortality, and ancient cooking implements.

Commissioned and originally broadcast by Radiophrenia at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, September 2023.

A meditation by Milo Thesiger–Meacham on the sound of the cicada as "audible heat" in human history and culture. Featuring spoken contributions by writer and translator Cristina Viti and filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji, field recordings, original music and a smattering of celebrity interviews.

This episode features selections by Sirius and DJ Cheesemaster.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

This episode features music by Kantele Voices, ASDB, Zach Zinn, Irving Paul Pereira, vÄäristymä, Wukir Suryadi, Richard Bégin, Mario Lino Stancati, Vongoiva, Wave Resistance + |​|​.​|​|, ЧЕРНИХОВ - CERNICHOV, Philippe Blache and Cognition Delay.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.